THE BOSTON CHRONICLE, Dec. 19, 1768  An inside page has a report from a navy officer to a friend in Philadelphia which includes: "The people of Boston have a behaved in so haughty a manner, by flying in the face of the Mother country, that troops are actually embarked to bring them to subjection...How it will end I know not;--people on this side of the water expect bloodshed! I hope that will be avoided & things amicably settled...". Another address of the Mass. General Assembly includes: "...the distresses occasioned by the new duties imposed by the Parliament of Great Britain...are far from conceiving that violent & tumultuous proceedings will have any tendency to promote suitable redress...". 

Most of the front page is taken up with a continuation of: "Voltaire On History". The back page has several ads including one regarding a local masonic lodge.

The publisher of this newspaper had Loyalist leanings, causing its demise before the formal outbreak of the Revolutionary War.

Various other reports, 8 pages, 8 1/2 by 10 1/2 inches, very nice condition.

This newspaper published only briefly from December 21, 1767 until 1770. The publishers, John Mein and John Fleeming, were both from Scotland. The Chronicle was a Loyalist paper in the time before the American Revolution. In its second year, Mein printed names in the paper that accused some colonial merchants of breaking a British non-importation agreement. In response, Mein's name appeared on a list of merchants who violated the trade agreement. Mein retaliated by accusing the Merchants' Committee of using the non-importation agreement for illegal profiteering. The irritated readership ransacked the offices of the Chronicle, and ultimately, it ceased operations in 1770. (credit Wikipedia)